‘This is the last time you’ll see’ Haley before Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew preparations in Columbia

Jay Desjardins and Ed Mills stage sandbags at TD Bank in Five Points in preparation for the rain that will come from Hurricane Matthew
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Jay Desjardins and Ed Mills stage sandbags at TD Bank in Five Points in preparation for the rain that will come from Hurricane Matthew
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Nikki Haley spoke to the public for the last time Friday morning before Hurricane Matthew clashes with the South Carolina coast later in the day.

“This is the last time you’ll hear my voice,” the governor said in calling for any who still has not evacuated from the coast to take this last chance to get out now. “This is the last time you’ll see me.”

Three days after Haley called for residents to evacuate, she told reporters in a press conference that 310,000 residents out of an expect 500,000 have left the coast to seek shelter elsewhere in the state and beyond.

Haley said 104 medical facilities have been evacuated from coastal areas. Hurricane Matthew could make landfall in South Carolina sometime overnight and cause a storm surge of more than eight feet extending miles inland, according to state officials monitoring the storm.

Meteorologist John Quagliariello says what weather radars can detect in the eye of a hurricane.

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The Charleston and Georgetown areas are expected to receive 13 inches of rain or more from the storm, according to the National Weather Service. Long-lasting power outages are also expected.

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